project manager Windsor, South East England, England
Job description
We’ve been in Britain’s homes for over 200 years. But at British Gas, we’ve never been more excited about the future.
Right now, we’re at a pivotal moment. As well as leading our customers through a once-in-a-generation cost of living crisis, we’ve got big plans to get our homes closer to Net Zero.
That’s why we need a brilliant Senior Project Manager to help us get to where we’re going. You’ll bring bags of energy, know-how and passion to our family of door-opening brands, including British Gas and Hive. And you’ll join a team who are just as focused delivering on fantastic results as you are.
The Role
Accountabilities:
- To work with business stakeholders to develop a robust documentation, including bid, business case, benefits realisation plan, KPI's and business requirements - providing challenge where appropriate.
- To design and plan for the realisation, measurement and maximisation of business benefits in line with the business case.
- To establish a project plan, with clear scope, goals, deadlines, dependencies, assumptions and milestones.
- To determine resourcing requirements needed to successfully deliver their project/workstream.
- To determine and agree deliverables, processes, quality standards and budgets.
- To ensure dependencies are defined, communicated, managed and understood.
- To actively manage all risks and issues. Determine ownership and resolve or escalate if necessary.
- To establish effective project governance to support robust decision making and escalation.
- To manage and deliver the project, including cross functional resources/workstreams using defined methodology and processes
- To manage costs effectively and inline with business case expectations to deliver ROI.
- To manage and monitor the project progress to critical path, resolve obstacles in a timely fashion and controlling scope
- Effective management and reporting of project, milestones, risks, issues and financials to stakeholders on a regular basis and to the portfolio office.
- Management of stakeholder expectations and communications, running cross functional meetings whilst documenting all actions, decisions and learnings.
- Management of internal and 3rd party relationships, motivating and coaching project teams to ensure continued high performance and exceptional delivery execution.
The Person
- You will be an experienced Project Manager, possessing strong leadership, and coaching skills and will ideally have experience working in a large, fast-paced, matrix organisation and change management. You will possess the ability to see the wider business perspectives and context and the business challenges alongside holding a tenacious, resilient, proactive and resourceful approach to issue and risk resolution and contingency planning. You will be an excellent communicator and influencer at all levels, a self-starter but also a strong team player, with an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges of working in change.
Experience
- Professional project management qualification is desirable
- Proven background in successful project delivery essential, demonstrable project management experience and skills
- Experience working in Agile framework is desirable
- Strong stakeholder management experience
- Ability to work unsupervised and manage own agenda, self starter and respected professional.
We are proud to be recognised as a disability-confident employer. Our customers come from a variety of different backgrounds, and so do we. We hire great people from all walks of life, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue championing inclusivity while investing in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world for everyone.
We are incredibly proud to have been recognised by The Times for being one of the Top 50 Employers for Women.
Our people are the beating heart of our business. We are incredibly proud of our commitment to being FlexFirst. From childcare to furry friends, we listened to our people and understood that they work best when they are comfortable and have a flexible working model that suits their individual needs. We embrace the opportunity to give our colleagues a choice to work from anywhere whilst still ensuring they can connect and engage with their teams through office days, employee networks and virtual events.
Competitive salary and bonus potential
Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
Pension scheme
Electric car lease scheme
- 33 days holiday allowance, inclusive of public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days
We are committed to creating a cleaner and greener future. And we’re making big changes to help us get there. That means cutting customers' emissions and our own to reach net zero. And because our people are the beating heart of our business, we will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better world for everyone. As part of our reforestation project with WeForest, for every new employee that joins our family, we plant trees in underprivileged areas in Tanzania to offer farming and wildlife economy opportunities for locals.
#LI-BGAS
At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!
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